Author Archive: Retro

Businessman Charles Peace leads a double life–by day he’s a respected local businessman, but by night he’s a professional thief who lets nothing, not even murder, stop him from getting what he wants.

Nellie Nolan works at the notions counter of a big department store, and Tom Clancy is in the hardware department of the same establishment. But both of their souls are filled with ambitions and aspirations not to be governed by even the routine of such existence. Nellie has saved a whole hundred dollars and, in a fit of June madness, decides to spend it all for one week of glorious pretense at a Maine summer resort, assuming the role of a lady of fashion and tasting for once the joys of wealth. Tom is impressed with the same newspaper story which has caught Nellie’s eye, and he goes to the same resort, posing as a rich young man from Newport. The two young people meet each other, each believing the other belongs to an entirely different sphere of life, and the succeeding events make it possible for Tom to become a hero in the eyes [...]

The captain of a ship lets a woman ride aboardis ship to an island to see her boyfriend.

A preacher works to stop dance clubs from opening on Sunday nights.

A hat-check girl at the Stork Club (Hutton) saves the life of a drowning man (Fitzgerald). A rich man, he decides to repay her by anonymously giving her a bank account, a luxury apartment and a charge account at a department store. When her boyfriend (DeFore) returns from overseas, he thinks she is a kept woman.

About the men who guard the US southern border keeping smugglers and escaped criminals from crossing.

A pair of hit songwriters fall in love with an ex-film star and her friend, but a blackmailer arrives to disrupt the romances. Based on William Field’s short story “Temperamental Lady.”

An ex-convict private eye picks up the case of his slain partner and buried treasure.